Peter Chong(I)(1898–1985)

World War II produced an influx of Hollywood espionage tales and battleground dramas during the 1940s and, as there were only a small supply of Japanese actors working in Hollywood at the time, a number of Asian character actors found steady employment, albeit undistinguished, as various Chinese allies and Japanese enemies. Benevolent-looking ... See full bio »

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His Chinese wife, Eileen Loh, was a schoolteacher. They had a daughter named Molly. Her name was inspired from a line he had in the MGM musical Easter Parade (1948). Towards the end of the film Peter, playing Fred Astaire's valet, pulls a white rabbit out of a hat box and calls it "Molly". See more
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